Soviet-era nostalgia still strong, 20 years on
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ธ.ค. 2011
- More than 50 percent of Russians lament the downfall of the USSR -- although most would not wish to return to the past. Among the nostalgics for the communist era is Valentina. She says she feels more Soviet than Russian, and enjoys talking about her past years working in a factory.Duration:02:03
It is interesting how the nostalgia is growing in almost all transitional European countries. I was born in the late 80s, but I can understand that looking at the current situation in the transitional country I live in and the neighbouring ones. There are many qualified people in our country who were excellent students, but there is no job for them. They have to give instructions to students or use their parents' money to survive which is embarrassing. There are always austerity measures by the government which means lower income and bigger taxes. While it affects most of the people, the politicians live in luxury telling us we have socialist mentality and are lazy. But, we finance their 'honeymoons'. They say we have freedom to choose, but we know nothing will change.
Some say our problems are part of transition and we still don't have a 'real capitalism' like in the West. Maybe it is true... but Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest minds in human history, lived in poverty in the USA while idiots like Paris Hilton are ultra-rich. I think all those stories about working hard to become rich in capitalism are BOLLOCKS!!!
***** It's been almost 25 years and the policies have done nothing but throw people into worse conditions than they were under "Socialism" for many of the transitional countries. The Soviet Union went from feudal wasteland to industrial superpower in 15, why can't these countries even give a the quality of life to their citizens that the Socialist era did (which was very low-middle class by western standards at best)?
Why? Because "True Capitalism" is what these countries were really subjected too, chicago school economics that ripped all the production and wealth out of the countries and gave all the wealth to corrupt mafia men, oligarchs and Wall Street bankers leaving the people in the countries in abject poverty.
I like how Potemkin villages are often used by Capitalists to insult the USSR, but when the western media only shows the rich inner city business districts of capital cities and then refuses to show how 95% of the population actually lives? How in fuck is that different from a Potemkin village?
***** You are too much under the influence of the Western media. I am not saying situation is perfect in Russia, but EU countries except Germany are far from miracle right know. Especially Italy and Spain where poverty and unemployment are growing.
***** lol i hate communists!! However you are a blind media baby!!
The EU is falling apart!! Humm the Swiss pulled out 3-4 months ago!! Spain is broke Italy is busted oh yeah lol the Greeks default just happened!!
Of course don't say I'm bashing capitalism but Europe is not capitalist they are socialist!!
But I Will say this no matter the system working hard gets you no where!! Work ethic is pure propaganda!!
Just eat it up work hard no harder no be the hardest working sap on your block and still not be able to buy shit or get that loan!!
Oh be a dumbass work hard because some old people told you they did!! Yes I know it seems just seems like it worked for them!!
But our parents 50-69 are loosing empty promises like retirement!!! Yeah they slaved for the 30-40 years only to find out they lost the risk and now get nothing!!
Yeah be a retarded dickmouth and sign up for that risk!! I don't work for promises I do for pure profit!!! We are not family and I don't want to live at work!! Oh and fuck the team I'm here for money!!
***** lol apparently you might be interested in some swamp land I have for sale in Arizona!!!
Just because you live there does not mean you really know most sheep here in the states don't know its happening here too!!
The EU is deep in debt much like all the western world is and they are just printing money out of thin air!!
But I don't expect everyone to know how the central banking system has fucked us!!
Economies of Soviet countries as well as Warsaw pact and Romania, Bulgaria countries were subsidized by government, Soviet countries lived in their own enclosed economical eco-system so the economy didn't compete with other countries. Oil, gas, wood, minerals and other raw materials were sold to get extra input but in reality the inefficient managing, lack of proper infrastructure and huge expenses made for military spending meant that the Soviet Union was running out of money. There was low unemployment because everybody was required to have a job, provided by state if necessary. It would be impossible to do with open economies, open borders and freedom to move, without an extra income for subsidizing all the extra spending by the state (Russia had and still has gas and oil fields to cover that part). I remember the 1980's as dull, uneasy and lacking most goods that are so common today, especially the late 80's when stores were empty, huge queues, moral of people going downhill etc
God bless this wonderful woman
god bless ussr
@@NostalgicMem0ries Entire generation abandoned in economic ruins after criminal Gorbatchev
@@gen_music saddest day in modern history. People who felt equal and optimistic, got robbed of that future, everything privatized and destroyed and now influenced by west.
@@NostalgicMem0ries I was forced to move scape from USSR 1990 left behind my family helping them from abroad I was only 19 years old others who didn't have this type of help juts parished in a time forgotten by criminals in Kremlin this is the true story of the USSR Gorbatchev and others they filled their bak accounts abroad with billions on destroying USSR they deserve to death sentence all of those pseudo ex-communists some of theme they still in Kremlin till present days Imagine that :)
@@gen_music wow thats a tough experience... our only hope is that communism party overthrow putin orligarch friends... then things might change.
USSR FOR EVER
MrFermin1234 УКРАЇНА НАЗАД
No.
@@dudu-6978 why?
The Soviet Union served the interests of the poor. This is all Gorbachev's fault. He should never have been put in charge.
Ed Shed Well, that was not only Gorbachev's fault. After Stalin's death, Chrushev killed most people from Stalin era and from this very point, from 1953, the collapse was becoming closer and closer... the party destroyed itself from inside.
Well im Latvian and my country got freedom the 2nd time from the Soviets so THX GORBACHEV
The people have free speech now
Covena White 😂
+Covena White
do they have anything important to declare?
Who doesn’t love the old times. Despite what our schools teach us about communism, I love Soviet Union history and architecture, fascinating!
schools make so much propaganda especcially against Stalin
I'm a Mexican thousands of miles away, but after reading and watching a bit about the soviet union I also feel nostalgia lol. Would have loved to see such a majestic nation. I'm no economist to judge nor do I know the full story, but ideologically it was such a beautiful union.
It was, treachery killed it
Viva Mexico compadre.
Tal vez vengan a funarte, pero solo vine a decir VIVA MÉXICO COÑO
It was a great idea ruined by corrupt leaders.
Atleast I tried
It was, as other TH-cam history channels have put it, “a great idea transformed by corruption from leaders”
Long Live USSR
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Long live!
lol wake up it's gone forever. It's never coming back. Communism will always fail in the end.
Sir I am very unfortunate the news about the Soviet Union... It's been hit by a car and it's in the hospital we need to go visit them in case they don't get well soon
I feel for dear old lady.
this babuska is so wright !!!!! CCCP ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
A good communist is a dead communist!
@@filipmac5577 so y u came here huh
Filips May why you researching them then? jealous cappy
The USSR was a brutal disfunctional nation that occupied Eastern Europe against it's will. The USSR is no better then Nazi Germany. Why tf would you want it back?
As a Russian, even though I never lived in the USSR, I have the nostalgia, this is proof that the USSR was a great nation, otherwise people would not miss it so much
People miss literally everything, that isn't a proof
@@masterjunky863 People don't miss everything, the people of Chile don't miss the fascist dictator US put in power, the people of Russia miss socialism because they had free education, free healthcare, and there was no homelessness, something that the west will never achieve.
@@comrade3459 despite my right leaning habits i have to agree with you America has become too bloated and fat,gorging itself on the middle and working class till there is none left. America has gotten lazy and complacent no longer feeling the need to prove itself, its a terrible thing we dont make anything ourselves we hire other people to do it for us meanwhile they profit off of our laziness
@comrade3459 Ancedotes are worthless. I've met plenty of Russians and other post-soviet citizens who don't miss the authoritarianism of the Politburo at all, and even to your point there are Chileans who miss Pinochet. Christ, there are people who miss Hitler. People will look back for anything that remotely promises a better then than what they have now, and it's stupid.
One day USSR will be back and so does communism !! Workers of the world unite !!!
You have nothing to lose but your chains
Ne- Next time will w-work guys!!!
@@duruarute5445 what defines a "functioning" system
@@reallygreatguy257 the ability of the state to influence society and the ability of the society to influence the state
If you wanna read about this i recommend the books "the narrow corridor" and "why nations fail"
that women has a true soviet hart always keep fightin and so she does ( oh this is a very old comment by this point I am no longer a Communist. I supord Monarchism with a constitution now )
Fight for what??? a dead idea?
am1966ath a great idea i the right hands
arie de niet Do you think that all the misery of Soviet rule was a great idea?..do you see any flourishing of anything were you had any soviet influence? Maos China? Fidel Castros Cuba? North Korea of that Stalin puppet Kim Il Sung? did you ever go to they USSR to see for yourself?..this lady lived in a world were others decided for her..when it crashed there were no money for her pension as the soviet system were built on artificial values and costs..did she talk about all the people who stood in lines to buy basic goods?
am1966ath thats what they wand you to think they dint think the same way as you they loved it you love your precius USA so potato tomato
arie de niet No.."they" can t make me think anything because I lived a s a free person with my own money and I traveled the world..no body told me what I should think or do as they did to this old,impoverished lady who was told what to think and do..I also had relatives in that horrid state the USSR and their life was miserable in comparison to the family members who lived in the western world..and yes the USA with its faults are a precious place that attracts people from the world over even from Russia(Russians in Conney Island)..did you see millions of people migrating to the USSR? those dumb fuck western intellectuals or US workers who did in the 1930 s were either executed, sent to Gulag or lived in misery for decades before they could leave that place..this lady lived in a state without a pension system..when it went bust there were no more pensions..just toilet paper bills that bought you nothing..she had slaved for a big lie
Then you need revolution again .
I was born in Hungary years after the USSR fell, but even I feel nostalgia.
Hungary is very beautiful and rich in history.
God bless you
If only the Soviet Union won the cold war, I would be able to see the beautiful nation for myself
Thank god it didn't. It was a brutal disfunctional nation that occupied Eastern Europe against it's will. The USSR is no better then Nazi Germany.
@@ballsackgaming1713 You think the United States is a democratic country? America is a surveillance state thanks to the NSA with the largest and most powerful military industrial complex that is terrorizing the whole world and a thorough brainwash population due to six decades of Red Scare propaganda by the Goebbels media.
Not to mention the USA is built the blood of Native Americans ans industrialized by the kidnapping and enslavement of black people, the reason why marijuana is illegal so they can arrest black people and send them to for-profit private prisons also read the 13th amendment of the US constitution!
at this rate? better start practicing Russian i hope you like the Cyrillic alphabet
Soviet please come back 😭
Do you know how accident ridden the soviet transportation system was? Flying in the USSR was literally a death wish. The planes were low quality. IN the west, commercial flying is the safest mode of transportation available
@Definitely a George Soros funded bot no it's true, Soviet planes weren't exactly the best
No! U do not understand anything about the Soviet Union, because ur American. The Soviet Union collapsing was something that many ppl have waited. Even tho I wasn't in that time, but my parents were because they are from the Soviet Union and have told me everything about it. Anyway, the СССР had a terrible economy which is why that led to the collapse of the Union. СССР had a strict and brutal leader named Joseph Stalin, there was NO religious freedom. It was terrible during the Stalin times, at least it was starting to improve after Stalin died. Around the 1970s when Breshniv was in power, corruption started to occur in the government! And even until this day, corruption that was taken place from the Soviet Union still goes. My point is, is that if the Soviet Union comes back, it's going to be the same. No freedom, brutal, strict. And if u were to be Russian living there before it collapsed, trust me... u would look for ways to escape it! Because remember, borders were closed. Ppl weren't allowed to leave the border of the Soviet Union, only government officials and diplomats. The Soviet Union as well treated ppl unfairly, the government officials always say that nobody can try anything from the West. Food, clothes, vehicles, etc. But, the government officials would always use stuff and eat stuff from the West. That is so unfair. Is this the kind of life u want if the Soviet Union reunited? I definitely would say no, if u have questions about this topic, let me know! I know a lot about the Russian history and the Soviet Union as well as I'm Russian and I follow the traditions of Russia cuz thats wut my parents told me to do so. I want everybody to understand that Communism is awful! And I feel bad that ppl in those Socialist countries have to live through this. Vietnam, China, Laos, Cambodia, pretty much South-East Asia is filled with a Communist economy.
The USSR was a brutal disfunctional nation that occupied Eastern Europe against it's will. The USSR is no better then Nazi Germany. Why tf would you want it back?
@@rgsxyz1105 but that was nearly 50 years ago
Нам нужно восстановить Советский Союз сейчас, мы не можем больше ждать!
Спаьа СССР 2020!! 🍓🇷🇺🚩💪🏾💪🏽💪🏻🚩🇷🇺🍓
I’m an American who was born after the USSRs collapse, and I have nostalgia from the USSR
Me too comrade
hmm, was expecting to see under the video a lot of negative comments people brought up in capitalist society, however ... hi from Siberia
It's crazy. My grandparents lived threw the Stalinist era. Where so happy when the ussr collapsed and now say things where 100x better in the old system.
No clue what to make of it
Taco Platter
It's because they have now seen the cut-throat greed of capitalism. People under communism were more genuine. No alternative motives, Just a united people.
Sir Fijoe I wouldnt say it was under Communism, rather Socialism, but ye you get the point
Russia had to build a wall around the country to keep people in, most countries have to build a wall to keep people out....says a lot about the Soviet Union...
@@sirfijoe450 , communism is responsible for some of the greatest crimes against humanity ever. Most communist are criminals and liars by nature.
RGS Columbia
Well there wasn't actually a physical wall around the country. Also the Berlin Wall was heavily build with the intent to keep people out. The USSR was scared of spies.
Whatever you think of it, the USSR carried the eastern world
I will gladly bring USSR back to see this granny smile.
The granny has no teeth....soviet denistry
Communism and capitalism are inherently oppressive systems.
@@mikhail5359 not capitalism
@@mikhail5359 only capitalism
The USSR was a brutal disfunctional nation that occupied Eastern Europe against it's will. The USSR is no better then Nazi Germany. Why tf would you want it back?
ah, the good old communism days
Starlord Yea the days when many starved and were shot for being out past curfew
Drip Too Hard You watch way too many movies, (Oi,Oi keep on hating boi)
Jay Gill no it was a fact, thousands of people starved and died to this ideology. Only way China has been somewhat successful is because they embraced capitalism.
Drip Too Hard And ur saying Captalism is any better? People like Churchill a “great hero” didnt do anything to stop famines etc
Ah the good ole socialism days. The only communism that was on this planet was primitive communism before the stratafication of human society into classes.
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You are a living history !!!
i might not be russian nor lived during the USSR era...but after i have seen the truth and many search on the matter through the years i have not only becomed communist my self but also felt the nostalgia too.
even if i live in a capitalist nation i still feel like one with the russians.
but now that i think of it maybe its because i am in this capitalist nation that makes me hate it.
sometimes i look around and all i see is people throwing chigarets on our land.
chigarets so popular because of the greedy buisness men to gain more money.
i also hear around me only dirty jokes or dirty languadge and filthy dirty music.
or i see sadness it self:poor people on the streets of our cities beging for money for bread with ruined clothes and the goverment dose ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR THEM!!!!!!
only in my home i feel my self(not that my family is communist or entierly understands me.) for in my home i go to my computer and hear the songs of communsim and all that i feel will embrase it (syria,pro russian ukraine etc)and i feel a weight leaving me.
i also play game involving the soviet union on them on witch you can play as them (red alert,war thunder,world at war etc)
i'm keep learning from communism and i become an even better man but of course it is obvius i will see both the lies the capitalist pig dogs say the "communism is evil",every time i hear it i want to vomit and my head get warm of anger.
i hate both capitalist and fascists for their crimes and what they have done and european union is both of these.
having my nation in it and especialy our soldiers aiding NATO MAKES ME FEEL SICK TO MY STOMACH!!!!
i always hated my classmates from young but then i knew little of how to explaine any of their stupidity origins.
now i know very weill what this corruption called CAPITALISM done to our home.
once we where a nation of pride.that was at least BEFORE WE JOINED THE EUROPIAN UNION AND I WILL NOT STAND SEE MY NATION IN RUIN BECAUSE OF THESE IDIOTS THAT THING THEM SELVES OUR LEADERS! I WILL JOIN THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND MAKE OUR NATION HOW IT SHOULD BE MANY YEARS AGO!!!!
as for you russians as i can feel your nostalgia i know well that you are the most importand nation to sucseed in your new revolution.i see you sharing the most importand nation in the world along with china.
i know you will have your great union again and i hope it to be soon,but until then fight on and you will regain what you once lost and together with china you will save us all from the capitalist and fascist dogs once and for all and i will be from the first to join the communist volunteer army.
LONG LIVE COMMUNISM AND MAY THE CCCP RETURN SOON!!!
fot ppd Its been 7 months. I hope all is well, and I would love to see you on your journey to establish Socialism in our lands! I thought I will join the fight too
I seriously doubt you're America based on your grammar, but you do have to know that the average IQ of a Russian is 96, which is below the western average. You see, the communist killed off the most intelligent and hard working because those would be the individuals that would resist communism the most. After the communist took over, they encouraged the less intelligent to outbreed the more intelligent because it is the dumb, the dullard and the lazy who supports communism. After the USSR collapsed, a lot of the remaining smart people moved to London and New York. Modern Russian society is very consistent with a low IQ because of a lot of people die from violent deaths and accidents.....very strange accidents...….and Russia is literally going to rot, when it should be the wealthiest country in the world with all the natural resources.....communism is the sin of man.
Also, u need to know that Russians are the biggest smokers in the world according to the world health organization. 60% of Russian men smoke and 22% of Russian women smoke.
@@VeganWitch111 you are right about smoking but becausr they live a bad life at modern russia
*simple logic*
lol get a life
Make Russia great again
Make the Soviets great again.
@@sheldonscott4037 make space era great again
@@helpiamstuckonthismanshead3385 Wholeheartedly agree.
Actually, I think what millions who've lived under both systems are saying is: "Make the USSR great again." Now, that sentiment is one I can agree with!
Start by getting rid of Putin
in the soviet union, everyone had money but you could almost buy nothing in the stores. Now everything is available in the stores but almost noone has the money to buy it.
I just love the light absurdity of the final image. Babushka leading the march, old veterans walking behind her
I guess that shows an analogy: no matter who did what, soldier or otherwise, it was led by the people.
She puts the red in redpilled
Supreme Snek That rarely happened, nice try, Rightist Bootlicker
MrVideoCreative starvation is what happened when Russia was an oligarchy... it’s entire history.
DDBR Naujaliai Чушь, и ты это знаешь. ГОЛОДОМО́Р
yes !
Somebody needs to send this to Vladimir Jaffe
Yes
@@danielk3919 Cuba exists
@@scottya2745 Thanks for highlighting this comment. I am actually an admirer of Marx these days and this will be deleted. And yes Cuba does exist as a good example.
I am from turkey. I am very curious about old Russian people's thoughts on the Soviets so where can I find videos like this.
You can just ask azerbaijani people about how their parents felt under soviet socialism. What i got is the responses are positive.
This one is in kyrgstan which was part of soviet union
th-cam.com/video/CtYgsifAhtY/w-d-xo.html
1:45 Nokia electronics company logo?
Onore a questa patriota dell'UNIONE DELLE REPUBBLICHE SICIALISTE SIVIETICHE.
What is the song that plays
Froguism "A las barricadas" (in Spanish)
Sir Fijoe there’s multiple, the last one sounds like “let’s go” to me the most
Sir Fijoe or maybe Sacred War
Warszawianka
Is it nostalga or did they just order prefer it
Cuauhtemoc_Chan n o s t a l g i a
People would say the same about Nazi germany
both
Poor grandma,I feel you.Free market destroyed everything
Lol stupid fuck
@@luna0237 Cope harder braindead liberal
@@josephstalin6315 no, I’m a normal headed Eastern European, not a 10 year old hysterically political western tankie who simps for a mass murderer lmao
@@luna0237 I am not even western.I am North European.You know nothing about history,so, whatever makes sleep well at night
@@josephstalin6315 north europeans are part of western society. and yes, i do know more about history than you, because i don't get brainwashed by youtube tankies everyday lmao.
It’s crazy how all the people who lived in the USSR miss it and all the people who didn’t live in the USSR hated it? Interesting
Soviet era nostalgia 40k views
Socialism is theft 999999999999999999999999999999999999
As a Brit I would love to see the Uk one day be like the USSR but more Christian (though the USSR was still 50% Christian but the state wasn’t). it would be a long long battle with so many enemies but I’d love to see it one day.
Appreciate this old lady, who was an ordinary crane driver, a common citizen, now living in a country that just took away the "Earlier assured security of a retirees medical, food and the basic needs". She may be naively supporting Stalin, don't know why, but certainly the Soviet system of 70s, and 80s assured many positives. Could they not continue with that system, without making it a police state? Talent technology was there certainly in Soviet system. Exotic consumption was not there.
al_pune you can’t have good without bad, if the Soviet Union became more liberal, it will rot and collapse fast. And it did, people wanted independence, they wanted more money, they wanted more things for themselves, and they were able to do it once speaking out and rebelling against the government was allowed. And it took 2 years for it to be dissolved by Gorbachev, mainly because a second Civil War was on it’s way because hardline Communists and Stalinists were against Gorbachev and his new policies, and getting ready to get rid of him. People would’ve started a Revolution against the Stalinists if they took back control over them. Gorbachev said it himself in an interview, he genuinely didn’t want a Civil War since it would kill so many innocent people, and it would just leave who ever wins weak, and in ruin from the War.
What evidence shows that she is naive?
Many of these old people had a steady job back then, even if they were incompetent, lazy or drank on the job they were rarely laid off because everyone was required to have a job. They were aasigned a job after school, so there was no competition for vacancies which meant more job securty but also that the moral on workplaces was sometimes low. When it comes to salaries the average salary was not really bigger than it is today in Russia, but with less goods and services in the market and prices dictated by the state it meant that people spent less and more importantly, the social ties, people who knew you and you knowed meant that you could buy products that were rarely sold. "Under the counter" was the term for that type of purchases and meant you had to provide some favour in return. Quality furniture, clothing, but also car parts for an example. Those who were in Communist Party or had relatives/friends there were doing quite good, no doubt.
1:50 Warszawianka! It is a Polish communist song. So cool to hear it is still used!
Here is one version of Warszawianka:
th-cam.com/video/QX-7r3Fjn50/w-d-xo.html
I wish she was my gran
I think everything but the constant loom of bombs seemed better in the coldwar for the west and Eastern blocks, America/canada was a place of prosperity and freedom and the American dream was still obtainable, and democracy and patriotism was still a thing, and though I never believed in communism the USSR was proud and strong with a culture of farming and hardwork, great art and music and now every country is worried about what is politically correct, what the celebrity of the week did last night in a public bathroom and with who!
Communism was all they knew, the transition must have been harsh.
and it still isn't better, it's gotten far worse in many ways as completely unfettered capitalism has destroyed the livelihoods of most people and left the elderly and disabled to fend for themselves. While Socialism wasn't perfect, no one was ever afraid of being homeless, without medical care, work, education or even food (despite the bread lines bs constantly spewed by anti-communists)
*Socialism*
The red army shall rise again
Nationality
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
NOOOO PEOPLE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE STARVING AND HATED JEWISH COMMININISMSMSM NOOOOO
I wish she was my grandma
Not your average Babushka
I mean she's kind of right though
Socialism in the 21st Century, a compelling thought.
The common man/woman never change history or dictate national policies.
Power brokers run the show regardless of political system.
USA, Britain, Germany, Russia;,,,it seems not to matter
The institution that can please most of the commoners, regardless of ideologies, wins the battle.
Damn babushka
Very interesting that most of the people @ 1:25 - 2:04 are older people who've spent most of their lives living in the Soviet Union. Now, she does have some good points, but what about the fact that the Soviet Union allowed little/no rights, especially under Stalin, although, rights did expand after Stalin's death. The Soviet Union is just 1 thing which is very mixed by the people who've lived there. Some former Soviets agree with Valentina, while other former Soviets disagree with her. Very mixed opinions from former Soviet citizens, which is 1 of the most fascinating things to me. I take a very mixed view of the Soviet Union who looks @ the Soviet Union as a good test case & a really good example of looking @ both sides & the idea of pros & cons. Hey, if Valentina misses the Soviet Union, that's absolutely fine with me & as a human being, she has every right to voice her opinion & she has every right to wish that the Soviet Union came back today.
1:58 - 2:04 is that A Las Barricadas playing?
Communists and Anarchists united and strong!
Ⓐ + ☭ = ☮ & ❤️
varshavianka, same tune
sans-culottes I thought it was Let’s Go
Punk rock is degenerate idiocy.
Communism is oppressive, you are no anarchist.
CCCP / USSR
I wish we got footage of tsarist nostalgia in the early 20th century too
Why lmao who the hell would have nostalgia for the fucking tsar
@@Tristyn_Waterman the ruling class
@@Tristyn_Waterman why would you have nostalgia for an oppressive regime?
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 because it was factually not oppressive and significantly raised the standards of living for the people. There's a reason people today who are old enough to remember it overwhelmingly view the USSR in a positive light
@@Tristyn_Waterman so they didn't mind no free speech, no free press, no free elections, no criticizing the regime, secret police, forced labor camps?
Because the Soviet Union was so great
"We will bring back Stalin"
She needs to get in contact with the Juche Necromancers in North Korea xD
Lenis yes,stalin No.
No seas imbécil.
You may not agree with Stalin's radical ways of operating, and that's fine. But you have to admit that he was the one who made the Soviet Union great
"My wonderful Georgian" -Lenin on Stalin
Lenin yes, Stalin yes.
in sane, no it's Marx Yes, Engles Yes, Lenin Yes, than Stalin Yes
Is it me or stalin looks swollen af in the pic
This was babushka when she drank too much the vodka.
Viva Stalin
1 word.
Freedom
But 1000 millions lives given twards it
isaiah strong Nice to meet you comrade.
+Fighterall13 your probely american arnt ya tel mi how free are you realy last time i checkt it isnt that free black people getin shot down killin some natives the south of america mostly stil racist federation
funny how soviet ppl had more freedom than ppl today
Nostalgic memories yes there was so much free speech and artistic freedom!!!!! There was so much freedom of expression and speech!!!! TOTALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of ourse old people will reminisce about "the good old days" , especially those who belonged to the "working class", their salary and benefits of a tractor operator or a crane operator exceeded salaries of teachers, historians. Jobs that are paid more today and farmers, crane operators who require much less education and intellectual skills are making less. So ofcourse, they are feeling being left out and being old, they will become bitter and take refuge in Stalinism era, during which millions of Russians died because of repressions in prisons, forced labour camps and deportation with not being allowed to return to home. Remember the slogan "all proletariat across the world - unite". Those who complied with every demand and limitation of the Soviet regime and praised the Communist Party, were doing fine. But nowadays knowing all the crimes against their own people, it's weird to see people justifying that time. Praising Hitler is illegal in Germany, but in Stalin is a hero...
Rostislav A high skilled specialised pediatrician in the Netherlands (where I live) makes less then medium skilled administration job so this phenomenon is not exclusively in communism.
Rostislav and how many has capitalism not killed? Take the colonisation of America for instance. Over 20 million people exploited and killed. And yet to all the Americans do is making toys and cartoons of a holocaust that actually happened, and everyone seems to be completely fine with it. Capitalism is the true enemy here and people don't realise it, because the only thing they are being told right from birth is that the only way they can get around in life is to be a selfish piece of shit who makes money of easily exploitable people.
Rostislav How come you know the circumstances better than the people who actually lived there ?
You know about the firms, about the people and their thinking, about the prisons, about their education and healthcare systems. Not to forget associations with the terminology of former Soviet Russia.
Your personal fairy tales are not required here, you know.
Can the passengers of a ship determine the course of the vessel taking into account only the direction of the winds, sea currents and the height of the waves? Disregarding the captain and his will? - The answer is clear. Likewise, people can not explain past and present events properly, ignoring the existence of God and His will.
The founder of the state, Lenin hated God, persecuted Christians. This fact condemned his work to failure. Throughout the existence of the Soviets, atheism prevailed in the country, often it was a militant atheism, from which the calamities of Russian people - terror, hunger, GULAG, murders, bloody wars, occurred. And what was worse - several generations were deprived of the vital Word of God.
However, according to the Bible, God cannot be mocked. He elevates kings, He removes kings. The collapse of the USSR, no doubt, was a perfect Act of God. Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and others only did the will of the Lord.
Tsvetan Sirmanov Do you think the American Indians also disregarded the will of God.....and were therefore exterminated ?
well...go to north korea then...thats stalinism for you...go! what is she waiting for?
She live during cccp what Do you know
@@top3misterioyterrorzapoyot571 im just saying such regimes still exist...
Old people nostalgic for a time that never really existed
What didn’t exist?
Valentina: Those ruling the country today are criminals
Also Valentina: We will bring back Stalin
and...?
@@karlacorona2186 And as terrible the ruler(s) of Russia is today, he is nothing compared to the destructive legacy of Stalin-a monster.
@@Arcadiabeckons she lived during stalin, she knows more than you
@@user-sl8jf7rl3g Did I at any point claim to be an expert on Stalinist Russia? нет!
But, due to the internets, I can consult with actual experts as well as many others living under his rule and they flatly contradict any glorification of the tyrant. However, maybe you're right-maybe the word of Valentina cancels all that....-spoiler alert-...it doesn't.
@@Arcadiabeckons all you consult is propaganda
Lol @ communism.
All these comments are nuts.
What are you talking about? Russia is a huge place. It crosses 7 time zones. It has every resource and capability known to man. Every commodity in the world exists in Russia.
They have richest and largest amount of combined natural resources in the world. They could be a huge tourist destination if they tried a little. They could have ski resorts, and beach resorts. They have oil, forestry, natural gas, water, agriculture, manufacturing capability, technology, education..... They literally have everything right at their fingertips. They are the ones choosing NOT to properly utilize those things. They have had 30 yrs to recover from the collapse of communism. But greed and corruption ruin them...as it always has.
I think Putin is a smart and powerful man. But he is a still a slave to the oligarchs. And he is not a smart business man. Hes good at many things. He understands espionage and geopolitics better than most. But I honestly dont think he would have a clue how to even run a hot dog stand. He does nothing to open the doors for business in Russia.
And the old lady in this video certainly has an endearing spirit... But not everyone wants to live like that. She failed to mention that the job was chosen for her. She failed to mention that she assigned that crappy apartment. She failed to mention that she has nothing to show for her years of work. She appears to have no family. She probably did not marry or have kids...because of her assigned obligations to the factory. She is alone, and poor.... Now why is that?
It's because communism fell apart!!!! Russia was crumbling from within. You had things like a 10 year waiting list for a new car. You stood in line for things like bread and toilet paper. You got one Russian made tv. You did not have a choice of where to go and what to buy. The healthcare system sucked. You can take that life and shove it. Just because there was some basic level of security, for some people.... does not make it a worthwhile venture.
I live in Texas...and I always have. My family goes back almost to the beginnings of Texas. We are free here. We have more jobs than there are people to fill them.
I work my dream job... that I chose for myself. I have incredible healthcare. I have a retirement account, and it is my money that I control. I won't be dependent on government when I'm old. I am free to live where and how I want to live. I have such a great job, my wife does not have to work. We homeschool our kids. We buy whatever food we want, whenever we want. We have choices for almost everything.
Not only do I have a great job... But in addition to that job, I own my own small business as well. I am free to do what I want to do. I can be anything.
I have roughly 6 weeks of vacation time every year. If I dont use it... I can carry most of it over to the next year.
I am not rich. I am right square in the middle. But I started close to the bottom. And worked for everything I have.
Communism is evil!
Soviet Union was so great that's why it collapsed!
for the collapse of Twin Towers, you can hardly blame the engineers neither faulty construction nor the people in it ....
Он рухнул потому что его разграбил и разрушил алкоголик Ельцин и его друзья олигархи со словами " скоро будем жить как на западе " а в итоге ни страны , ни нормальной жизни, а Путин продолжает грабить налогами и повышением цен на продукты и бензин . А демократии в России ( о которой так трубят на Российских телеканалах ) её просто нету , на смену КПСС пришла Единая Россия , даже партийная элита никак не изменилась со времён СССР ,на своих должностях сидят те же самые люди что и при КПСС.
Taffer 1000 the entire world was trying to destroy it, of course that would happen
78 percent of the people wanted to stay you clown
Lenin loved the system he made and called all of the citizens "useful idiots"
Stalin starved everyone to death and was brutal. Yes he did win the war but that was about it. He put jews in concentration camps as well, And if you tried to buy a plane ticket or leave town and especially the country you could be put in the psych unit. Religion was not an option, Atheism was the only way. Speaking out could get you in a work camp or gulag. Russia is not a lot better than it was then but hey you got more freedom now than then, except that you still cannot speak out against the government. Yes you would get free apartments and most things were free, that is great! but at the same time I rather work to make my life better instead of staying at a level where i can never rise out of where i would be in poverty in siberia for the rest of my life and not be able to do anything about it
Logan F. You should study from the other viewpoint, not just western capitalist viewpoint. Otherwise, you are speaking while still at the very least half-blind.
it was still better than the tsar you have to give them credit for that,
tell me more about your prosperous life in post-soviet russia
Logan F. Lenin never called anyone a Useful idiot, it's an urban myth and the saying first came from 1941:
"Russian 'nihilists' were for Polish agents no more than useful fools and silly enthusiasts, which could be goaded to go through fire and water." by Vasily Bazanov, it was attributed to the Communist Party and Lenin by guess who, Ludwig Von Mises (far-right wing ultra capitalist) who pulled it out of his arse.
cool fantasies, weird American teen
If only they knew what Stalin did in the 30s
For combating revisionism, liquidating opportunists and careerists out of the comlnterm, industrializing a semi-fudel back water into a space faring superpower!
The supreme commander of the Red Army that liberated the concentration camps in Central Europe and destroyed the Nazi war machine and denying Hitler's dream of Lebensraum. 🇨🇺🇦🇴🌍🚩☭✊🏽
@@purpleblastoise uh huh
@@ishikawagoemon4397 Read a look liberal, social democracy isn't going to save your wage/debt slave sorry ass.
Great example of socialism. Gives cheap food and plane tickets for some, and starves others.
Robert that’s capitalism in a nutshell
Rich get the cheap food and plane tickets and everyone starves
ikyda1 i wont comment anything, you guys are stupid